Three top U.S. wireless carriers to embrace BlackBerry 10 — (Reuters) - Three of the top U.S. cellphone carriers signaled this week that they would support Research In Motion's (RIM.TO) BlackBerry 10 products, the first of which are due to be unveiled Jan 30, offering a hopeful sign for RIM's comeback effort.

Surface Pro: an in-depth look at Microsoft's super tablet — Microsoft might not be at CES this year, but that hasn't stopped the company's CEO jumping on stage to pass the annual keynote responsibility over to Qualcomm. While its OEMs are out in force with crazy Windows 8 designs and unreleased hardware …

4K at CES 2013: the dream gets real — Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG, and now Vizio too — the 4K bandwagon is fully loaded and ready to get rolling — Almost exactly a year ago, upon these parched steppes of Nevada we know as Las Vegas, Vizio told us it was keen to get into the 4K TV market, but the timing wasn't right quite yet.

Amazon to launch auto rip, an effort to sex up CDs — In the most significant announcement involving the compact disc in years, Amazon is expected to reward CD buyers by automatically storing the songs in their digital lockers free of charge, sources told CNET. Amazon may do the same thing for past CD purchases, the sources said.

Samsung seeks broader chip base as Apple cuts loose — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co is looking to supply chips to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone makers, the head of its system chip business said, to counter any fall-off in demand from Apple Inc, which is weaning itself off Samsung chips used in its iPhones and iPads.

A more complete picture of the iTunes economy — As it did yesterday, on occasion Apple reports the cumulative total downloads and payments to developers. Since this is done in variable time intervals, it makes analysis of the value of the app store difficult. — But not impossible.

How GitHub Helps You Hack the Government — On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. — The document wasn't that important. It was a form for transit subsidy requests.

Samsung flexible OLED phone prototype (hands-on) — Samsung gave us a brief glimpse during it keynote today of its first phone using a flexible display, and now we've just had the opportunity to handle the device for ourselves. The phone, which is a nameless prototype …